Scenes of Independence: Cultural Ruptures in Zagreb (1991-2019)
<p>After the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia, a flourishing cultural scene was established in Croatia’s capital Zagreb. The scene calls itself: independent culture. In this book, Sepp Eckenhaussen explores the history of Zagreb’s independent culture through three questions: How were independent cultures born? To whom do they belong? And what is the independence in independent culture? The result is a genealogy, a personal travel log, a mapping of cores of criticality, a search for futurologies, and a theory of the scene.</p> <p>Once again, it turns out that localist perspectives have become urgent to culture. The untranslatability of the local term ‘independent culture’ makes it hard for the outsider to get a thorough understanding of it. But it also makes the term into a crystal of significance and a catalyst of meaning-making towards a theory of independent culture.</p>
Authors: Sepp Eckenhausen
Contributors: Leonida Kovač
Copy Editor: Miriam Rasch, Rosie Underwood
Designer: Laura Mrkša
ISBN: 9789492302403